"Great White Hunter" from The Ryskind Sketchbook
Thomas Sowell on McCain's weaknesses. As I mentioned in comments below, McCain's ACU rating is 64% this year. Chuck Hagel's is 73% and Ben Nelson's 63%. So that's the company McCain is keeping these days, whatever his lifetime rating is.
However, I have to say I think the conservative talk show hosts going apoplectic about McCain sound negative and whiny instead of like the "people with ideas." Conservatives failed this year to put up a candidate who not only held the right opinions but also projected strength. That's our failing, not McCain's. He is what he is.
If Romney wins, we'll have a candidate who's running on all our issues but seems weak and whose actual convictions are unknown. If McCain wins, we'll have a strong candidate who's 2/3 with us (although viscerally dislikes us as a breed) but is likely to blow it big-time by indulging his famous temper --which the MSM currently covers for him, but won't once he's in a head-to-head with the Democrat nominee. Kinduva crapshoot either way.
What focuses the mind is recalling that Hillary's ACU rating is 8%, Obama's 7%, and either one will staff their cabinets top to bottom with operatives who get up every morning thinking of ways to destroy the traditional American family and savage the military. You are not allowed to say you care about "life" and refuse to lift a finger against the tsunami of harm to the unborn that will be unleashed when a Democratic President has a Democratic Congress to play with.
However, I have to say I think the conservative talk show hosts going apoplectic about McCain sound negative and whiny instead of like the "people with ideas." Conservatives failed this year to put up a candidate who not only held the right opinions but also projected strength. That's our failing, not McCain's. He is what he is.
If Romney wins, we'll have a candidate who's running on all our issues but seems weak and whose actual convictions are unknown. If McCain wins, we'll have a strong candidate who's 2/3 with us (although viscerally dislikes us as a breed) but is likely to blow it big-time by indulging his famous temper --which the MSM currently covers for him, but won't once he's in a head-to-head with the Democrat nominee. Kinduva crapshoot either way.
What focuses the mind is recalling that Hillary's ACU rating is 8%, Obama's 7%, and either one will staff their cabinets top to bottom with operatives who get up every morning thinking of ways to destroy the traditional American family and savage the military. You are not allowed to say you care about "life" and refuse to lift a finger against the tsunami of harm to the unborn that will be unleashed when a Democratic President has a Democratic Congress to play with.
- Two more Justice Stevens/Souters plus more than a hundred Federal court appointments to foul our justice system for another 50 years.
- Federally funded embryonic stem cell research
- federally funded cloning and chimera research
- federally-funded abortion on demand
- abortion in military hospitals
- federally funded abortion overseas
- vicious regulatory attacks on pro-life doctors, nurses, clinics and non-profit groups
- repeal of conscience clause exceptions for doctors and pharmacists
- repeal of tax exempt status for Churches and pro-life groups
- vicious regulatory attack on the Boy Scouts
- FOCA --which is like the Human Life Bill in reverse-- a federal statute mandating abortion on demand in every state.
- The end of abstinence education
- The end of the highly successful AB[C] approach to AIDS in Africa
